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Infrared Emission Around Cyg X-3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R.N. Ogley
Affiliation:
Physics department, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
S.J. Bell Burnell
Affiliation:
Physics department, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
R.P. Fender
Affiliation:
Astronomy centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BR1 9QH, UK

Abstract

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We present UKIRT infrared images of the X-ray binary Cygnus X-3. We address the possibility of extended infrared emission and show that it could be either warm circumstellar material or a star near the binary’s line of sight.

Type
Part 15. Poster Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

References

Fender, R.P. & Bell Burnell, S.J., 1996, A&A, 308, 497 Google Scholar
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